March Newsletter

It's Women's History Month!

You'll find amazing women in all our courses. We strive to include a variety of artists throughout the Music Workshop program.

Check out these incredible artists featured in Music Workshop courses!

Keiko Abe, Patsy Cline, Mon Laferte, Jennifer Lopez , Etta James, Natalie Lafourcade, Patti LaBelle, Mitsuko Uchida, Aretha Franklin, Ella Fitzgerald and Janis Joplin
just to name a few!
And more...

Connection and Relevance

We are always striving to connect to Music Workshop students through relevant content in our resources. We hear often from teachers that students enjoy clips and examples included in the program that reflect themselves and their lives. We work hard to make these connections and hearing from you is a great metric of how the program resonates with students. Our commitment remains to keep trying, acknowledge when we can do better and commit to try harder.
You help us make the program the best it can be!
Thank you for giving us vital feedback about the program!

Please find links below if your students would like to share their
thoughts and impressions of Music Workshop. Cheers!

Student feedback - K-2

Student Feedback - 3-8

Discovering in Kahoot

Have you searched for "Music Workshop" in the Discover section of Kahoot? Industrious teachers - there are so many of you - have created Kahoots for our various courses. Check one out to add a fun element to your assignments - they are ready-to-go! Fun!

Jazz Revisions

You may notice a change on the site when you look through the course listing. Our Jazz course is now "Under Construction". In taking a critical eye to our courses, we determined that Jazz needed some updates that couldn't wait. We are expecting that the course will be ready for release in April. Please contact us if you need access to the resources before then - we are happy to make arrangements. Thank you!

Inspire Live Africa

Mark your calendars for May 23rd at 5pm PDT to attend the Inspire Live Virtual Launch Party celebrating our newest courses in our Culture Series - music from Africa. There will be performances, previews of the courses and messages from Music Workshop and our contributors. We will also be fundraising for our upcoming courses on the music of Asia. Come and enjoy the joyful sounds of African music filling the air.

RSVP today for this free, virtual and family friendly event!

RSVP today for Inspire Live!

Music Workshop Teacher Advisory Group

Our Music Workshop Teacher Advisory Group (TAG) has kicked off their work for the year. It is a great group representing a mix of urban, rural and suburban schools in various parts of the country. The first topics we covered concerned each teachers differing teaching situations for the year and overall impressions of the MW program. Some fun findings and notes from our discussions.

Quotes about Music Workshop:

They've really enjoyed them! They like that they recognize much of the music, they like that they change directions and include brain break moments and they engage the students.
The most wonderful part of this program overall is the quality and relevance of the presentation.
How would you describe Music Workshop to teachers who haven't signed up yet? Free; Differentiated by age group; List of subjects/topics; Resources provided with each lesson; Instructions on how to imbed in various distance learning platforms (Google Classroom, Canvas, etc.) provided; Aligned to the National Music Standards with documentation.